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We will need writers who can remember freedom: poets, visionaries - the realists of a larger reality.

Ursla Le Guin (1929-2018)

National Book Foundation speech, 2014

This Week in History:

April 8th - 10th

Test yourself:

Press the buttons to reveal the answers.
1
At London airport how many people died and how many survived?
5 died and 121 survived
2
What did thousands gather for and when?
Martin Luther King's funeral in 1968
3
What toppled and when?
Saddam Hussein's statue in 2003
4
Where was there a political deal and when?
Northern Ireland in 1998
5
Who died and at what age?
Picasso, aged 91

Notes:

The footage from Baghdad is iconic and false - a good example of fake news, that is news that misrepresents events and buries other news of greater signigicance.

Here's a link to an article from the Atlantic which explains why.

There's also a video on YouTube.

This Week In History HD Video 15.7 MB
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